C'mon, everyone knows I went out with criminals in high school. Including my parents.
I did not know your parents were high school criminals.
That's insane troll logic!
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DavidS - Mar 03, 2005 4:58:59 pm PST #7128 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2005 4:59:46 pm PST #7129 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I didn't know she dated her parents!
DavidS - Mar 03, 2005 5:00:32 pm PST #7130 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I didn't know she dated her parents!
That's why they were criminals.
Jesse - Mar 03, 2005 5:00:48 pm PST #7131 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, yeah, I almost went back to edit. Even my parents know I went out with criminals in high school.
I always love the cheerful sociopath on the side of good.
erikaj - Mar 03, 2005 5:01:43 pm PST #7132 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Dude, I love Bubba! (Not least because he has a dog named Sargeant Esterhaus. I could forgive a lot of a man like that.)ETA: And also, I could just say "That guy was just an idiot. Kick his ass!" And he would probably do it. But that's why I want my own Paulie Walnuts. To have "chats" with my enemies.
Jesse - Mar 03, 2005 5:02:31 pm PST #7133 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
At least ERIKA can stay on topic.
DavidS - Mar 03, 2005 5:02:42 pm PST #7134 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Not least because he has a dog named Sargeant Esterhaus.
"Now be careful out there."
DavidS - Mar 03, 2005 5:03:13 pm PST #7135 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
At least ERIKA can stay on topic.
That's because she was a high school criminal. They're very single-minded.
erikaj - Mar 03, 2005 5:10:59 pm PST #7136 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
And I thought Stephanie Plum should bang Ranger's brains out. A mercenary who doesn't want to meet mom and eat pot roast? Yay! But maybe that's my Committment Issue. No, high school me would've gotten much more high-minded than this...she was most embarrassed about this taste. Because it's not Nice. ETA: But still, in the eighth grade I wanted to be graduation speaker, and I wrote a sample speech, which was probably too sarcastic to ever make a grad. speech, and I forgot my last line. So I would've told my eighth grade class "Hey, let's be careful out there." I...did not get to do that, needless to say.
P.M. Marc - Mar 03, 2005 5:19:58 pm PST #7137 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I've discovered, through my single-minded single-author reading of the last few months (I've been on a huge Pratchett kick) that the easiest narrative hook for me is to have strong female characters in traditionally male roles. The Discworld books that feature said characters get read about twice as fast as those that don't. Monstrous Regiment flew by, for example.
I have also discovered that of the Discworld regulars, Angua is by far my fav.
I suspect my hook would work as well be the character pirate or police, so long as said character is a girl.